Shoe-tree.



No. 804,917. PATENTED NOV. 21, 1905.

J. E. BAKER. l

SHOE TREE.

APPLIUATION FILED M315, 1905.

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JAMES' E. BAKER, or NEW YORK, Y.

SHOE-TREE,

-Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1905.

Application iled March l5, 1905. Serial No. 250.187.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, JAMES E. BAKER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Trees, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in shoe-trees; and the invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, to which reference is made, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my new and improved shoe-tree. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan inverted view of the shoe-tree. Fig. 4: is a partly-sectional elevation showing my invention applied to a so-called full-tree. Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation of the heel-section of the same,'and

Fig. 6 is a detailed plan view showing a modiiication.

In the drawings, 2 designates the heel-section of the shoe-tree, provided with an arm or frame 3, and 4 designates the toe-section, provided with the toggle-lever 5, t"pivoted in the slot 6 on the pin 7, so that it is adapted to be moved up and down for retracting and forcibly spreading the main sections of the tree. The operation of moving the lever 5 up and down is facilitated by a finger-lift 8, formed at the free end of -the lever. The arm or frame 3 is adjustable along the lever 5 for regulating the tree to fit shoes of different sizes, and this adjustment is elfected without the removal of any parts, and when once properly adjusted the parts remain in the selected position without danger of casual displacement and without interfering with the up-and-down movement of the lever 5. The arm or frame 3 is provided with a lockingstud 9, which is adapted to enter any one of a series of recesses 10, formed in or through the lever 5. The said recesses are so made in the lever as to form the series of teeth or projections 12. A spring 13 operates to force the locking-stud 10 into the recesses, so that it acts in connection with the teeth or projections to lock the arm 3 and the lever 5 together. circular, as here shown, so that the teeth or projections and locking-stud will not interfere with the pivotal action between the lever 5 and arm or frame 3 when the former is The recesses 10 are circularl or semi-` moved up and down in the use and operation ofthe tree.

In order to adjust the tree, the lockingstud is moved out of engagement with the recesses against the pressure or tension'of the spring, and for this purpose I provide it with a push-pin 111, so that by merely pressing on the head 15 thereof the connection between the lever 5 and arm 3 is broken, allowing these parts to be moved freely one along the other. The pin 14 is smaller in diameter than the looking-stud and moves freely along the slot 16 made through the lever 5.

The arm or frame 3 comprises two side flanges or cheek-pieces 17 17 and a bottom 18, by which it is secured to the heel-section 2 by a screw 19 or other fastening device, the heel-section being formed with a recess 2O to receive the flanges. preference cut away at 21, so as to form the bridge 22, which prevents the free end of the lever 5 from being moved downward beyond bounds.

A traveler 23 is applied to lever 5 and is adapted to slide freely thereon and by preference embracing the edges thereof. The pin 14 is held in an orifice 24 in said traveler and is likewise held in an orifice in the flange 17a of the arm or frame 3 and in an orifice 25 in the spring 13, so that the pin is held in line with the space 16 it moves in and in turn holds the locking-stud 9 in line with the spaces 10 between the teeth or projections 12. The locking-stud 9 is held in a hole 26 made through the cheek-piece 17 ,its movement being limited by the head 27. The location of the bridge 22 is such that when the lever 5 is pressed down upon it the locking-stud will be carried below the line of thrust, forming an automatic lock,

so that more or less strength must be exercised upon the finger-lift 8 to set the parts in position in the shoe and to break the joint in order to remove the tree from the shoe. When the adjustment is for a short shoe, the opening 21 in the bottom of the arm or frame 3 forms a clearance for the rear end of the lever 5, allowing the edge of the lever farther up to rest upon the bridge 22.

In the form shown in Fig. 6 instead of adapting the locking-stud 9 to be operated by a push-pin it is 'operated by aspring-pressed thumb-lever 28, which draws back-the locking-pin 9, and by preference the stud is centrally bored to receive a guide-pin 29, secured in the cheek-piece 17 of the arm or frame 3.

rIhe bottom 18 is byl IOO In theiso-called full-tree (shown Vin Figs. 4 and 5) the level' 5 slides in a recess 30 in the heel-section 2 upon a plate or other alined support 31, inserted in the recesses and secured by nails 32 or other fastening devices. In the heel-section is formed a recess 33, in which is placed the locking-stud 9, and a larger recess 34 is made in the heel-section, in Which is placed spring 35, push-pin 14, and head 15. An annular Washer 36 is by preference placed in the recess 34 against the side of the lever 5, and the aperture through the Washer is by preference somewhat countersunk, as shown at 36, to receive the reduced end 37 of the locking-stud. 1n this construction by pressing inward upon the head 25 the locking-stud is disengaged from the recesses in the lever 5, allowing the toe and heel sections to be adjusted for shoes of different sizes.

Having thus described my invention, what 41 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isA

.1. `In a shoe-tree an arrn or frame provided with a heel-section, a locking-stud to which said arm or 'frame is piv0ted,va 'traveler in which said locking-stud is held, a lever on which said traveler slides and a series of teeth or projections formed in said lever, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. A shoe-tree comprising toe and heel sections, a lever pivoted to one of said sections and formed with a series of teeth or projectlons formed 1n a slot 1n said lever, a traveler connected to said lever, an arm or frame connected to the other of said sections and piv- JAMES E. BAKER.

Witnesses:

JOHN G. GARDNER, H. ALBERTUS WEST, 

